Author: Olaf Jenkner
Date: 09:17:38 11/15/02
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> >I should think that Chest has proved this a long time ago, and faster. >Besides, one can make a clean alpha-beta search with material-only evalutation >and prove that there is no forced material gain, let alone a forced mate, in a >lot more than 11 moves. > >/David I used Chest. I needed 12 hours to prove that there is not a mate in 9 moves on the same computer. My program needed 16 minutes for mate in 9. I tweaked my program for the initial position. OJe
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